Elgon Youth Development Centre
Focus: Community and Education.
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Project Description
Elgon Youth Development centre formally Elgon Youth Brass Band, is a Community based organization located in Mbale District, Eastern Uganda, the project started in 2009 as a result of the appalling poverty situation in the community that had led to a rise in crime rates, street children, early pregnancies and early marriages leave alone dropping out of school by many children and youth. Lack of employment, death or separation of parents, lack of school fees and other scholastic materials, drug and forms of child abuse have been responsible for the increased number of unemployed and street children.
Founders of the organization discovered that providing the affected and vulnerable children and youth with a means of survival and keeping them busy can help in reducing the impact of this situation on the community.
Members decided to form the organization as a means of reaching vulnerable youth and children who would in turn support the community and the society at large. The organization has recruited beneficiaries aged 10-25 from the community and surrounding communities but mainly children living on streets. The primary beneficiaries are expected to help themselves and later their siblings and the community.
The aim is to give vulnerable children the chance to learn skills that would offer them a route out of poverty, lifting them off the streets and away from the risks of drug culture, violence and crime. The proceeds from individual and group efforts will be used for meeting scholastic costs, meeting personal and basic family needs and saving for the future.
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Project Summary
We welcome volunteers to help with our music program, teach English, computer studies, art and design and to help in reuniting street children get back with their families through the organization.
Volunteers work 6 hours a day Monday – Friday with no work on weekends, allowing volunteers to have fun in the town and discover attractions.
We have accommodation which is in a secure environment for our volunteers self contained house $5/ day and it can hold more than 8 people. In the house all volunteers become family and work together like cooking, cleaning and shopping.
We welcome volunteers to help in above-mentioned skills and should be English speaking, 18 years and older. If you are able to please bring along a gift for our beneficiaries if you have and like clothes, toys, used phones, music instruments, books etc.
Elgon Youth Development Centre
PO box 674 Mbale, Uganda East Africa
Tel: +256774697395
Email: elgonyouthdevelopmentcentre@gmail.com
Website: http://eybbuganda.blogspot.co.uk/
Location: Mbale, Uganda
Average cost per day: $5
Focus: Education and Community
Skills needed: Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and English speaking
